Results 11,941-11,960 of 26,418 for speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please resume your seat.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The rights of Members count for an awful lot but the Constitution and the Standing Orders of the House count for something too.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will offer a further small piece of advice with regard to how the system works. The parliamentary legal advisers advise the Clerk of the Dáil. The Clerk of the Dáil advises me. That has been the process down through the years.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is no different today from what it has ever been in the past.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the proposal for dealing with Wednesday's business agreed to?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are voting on the Order of Business.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Solidarity-People Before Profit has Private Member's time-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, we are voting on the arrangements. What Solidarity-People Before Profit includes in the arrangements is its own business. It may be impacted upon by the meeting of the Dáil group.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am not in the habit of making outrageous statements.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am not prepared to be bullied either.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am not prepared to be bullied.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will call Deputy Bríd Smith, but before I do so, I wish to advise the House that the avenue available to the Deputy, which we have advised, is that she may recast the motion to bring it into order. This would involve redrafting it as a motion to refer the draft Standing Order to the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform for its consideration. This option remains open to the Deputy....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Smith, I admire your passion for the particular issue, but I am afraid you are a little bit misguided. This is a constitutional assembly. We must have regard to the Constitution. When I signed the pledge here-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Excuse me, Deputy.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Calm yourself, Deputy. When I signed the pledge here-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Resume your seat, please. When I signed the pledge here I committed to be the Members' servant, not a slave to the system. We have reformed many aspects of how business is transacted here. However, we cannot unilaterally reform the provisions of the Constitution, which require a referendum to be changed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: For as long as-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There is no point of order. For as long as the Constitution-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy. For as long as the Constitution states what is set out in Articles 17.2 and I think it is 28.4, we are constrained. The Deputies might wish we were not, but we must deal with the reality.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That is not the advice I have.